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Around 8 months after banning smoking in public places in Jordan, Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad issues a decree banning smoking in public places and public transportation. Those who are caught smoking in public will be paying a fee of 2000 Syrian...
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President Obama said yesterday he is still several weeks away from adopting a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
What’s taking so long? Obama wants his...
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The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind...
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President Obama’s diplomatic outreach to Iran deserves some award for its schizophrenic nature. Obama claims he wants to reach out his hand to an uncleanched...
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President Obama campaigned on “Change” in Washington that would reject the cynicism, partisanship and the political gamesmanship that have long dominated...
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The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning parents across the state to be aware of efforts by Mexican cartels and transnational gangs to recruit Texas youth in...
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President Obama has admitted for the first time that the deadline he set two days into his Administration for closing the Guantanamo Bay detainee camp in Cuba will be...
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Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year, and with it comes the idiotic fringe-media meme that’s come to be known as the “War On...
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Israel: Busy Ethnic Cleansing Muslims and Christians from Holy Jerusalem
Here’s the list that Obama administration calls a success in the Middle East
- Israel...
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Another hateful asshole at Fox
Here’s a recent exchange between Fox News host Shepard Smith and Texas Republican Senator (and Gubernatorial candidate) Kay Bailey...
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The horrific things some people do to their children is beyond belief. Parents who offer their kids up as suicide bombers, a spouse who kills their own child, or the...
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The Alaska hockey-mom and conservative starlet Sarah Palin is making a comeback. Previously resigned to publishing her political opinions via the reputable Washington...
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Since time immemorial birth control has been a preserve for women, and for decades birth control pills have been a women only affair but as it seems even men could also...
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Humanity needs a jolt to come out of the box we have locked ourselves in for generations. The rot has become so severe that mere paradigm shift is not enough to rescue...
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I am to be specific: Then and Now.
Any comments? Thank you in advance for sharing an American history in making.
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Investigators in the city raided offices for some of the nation’s largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a corruption probe into a powerful union that has long...
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After turning down Vogue during the presidential campaign for “fear of looking too feminine,” Hillary Clinton has finally granted Vogue the interview they...
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A paparazzo testified Tuesday that an Ohio police chief told him he had access to ultrasound photographs belonging to the woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica...
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When a strict anti-tobacco law came into effect three years ago, Maria Eugenia Avila scoffed. She had no intention of quitting the two packs a day she was delightfully...
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It’s been a long time since passengers have been allowed to smoke on an airliner in the United States. It’s the same story in Europe. But now the smoking crowd...
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Nothing seems too draconian when it comes to discouraging the populace from puffing on tobacco. Seven years after New York instituted its ban on smoking inside clubs,...
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Drinking, promiscuity and a cycle of low aspiration mean Britain is becoming the ‘bad parent’ of the western world.
A vast study of youngsters’...
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Few anti tobacco messages through which almost all us come across are — smoking kills you, smoking is injurious for your health, it can cause cancer and can cause...
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By declaring public places as free of smoking is one of the most positive and commendable moves of the current government. Smoking in public offices and other public...
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The famed British Pub is more than a bar for which an occasional drink is had, rather is almost daily British routine, a part of British culture and a motif exported to...
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Well, guys males have all rights to puff anywhere they want but females are not allowed for same. Don’t get shocked reading this, its strange but true, this incident...
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The upsurge of lawsuits against tobacco companies in the 1990s did not happen because greedy trial lawyers suddenly realized the money to be made by suing “Big...
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Greece will impose a tobacco ban in public places on July 1 in its third attempt in a decade to stamp out the habit in Europe’s biggest-smoking nation, the health...
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While the taxes on cigarettes have been raised in years, it seems that it is not about money, but control. Experts believe that such “punitive” taxes will...
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According to a study by the Pennsylvania University, dangling enough dollars in front of smokers who want to quit helps. The experiment on 900 General Electric workers...
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Kelly Marley Pocock 24, from Merthyr Wales from South Wales, a mother who just did not care much about the bad effects of smoking. She just let her son, three year old,...
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First of all, and because I see that Michael C hasn’t yet done so, (please excuse him, he even forgets MY BIRTHDAY) I shall say it for him. HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
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After much research, the US Public Health Commisiion has recommended some counseling and medication treatments that are considerably more effective for people looking...
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As far as the question of how to quit smoking is concerned, there are many methods: herbal quit smoking techniques, quit smoking laser therapy, music and relaxation...
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It’s easy to laugh at cigarette ads from the golden age of American smoking—say, from the flapper–ish 1920s through the cool Mad Men–era of the early sixties....
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Imagine an enemy that kills one person every six seconds with non stop-killing. He is also responsible for one in 10 adult deaths worldwide, killing 5.4 million people...
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A US study has suggested that more than 80 million people in China will die in the next 25 years as a result of lung disease. One in three cigarettes in the world is...
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Payam Rez, 23, of Sterling, Va., right, smokes a hookah pipe at Lebnan Zaman in Vienna, Va. on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. A smoking ban that makes no exceptions for hookah pipes has passed in Virginia’s legislature.
